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GUARDING THE AQUEDUCT
Warning to People Boating
[People’s Press, 9 May 1900]
No thoroughfare is allowed over the aqueduct. Wheelmen, conveyances, etc., are turned back by the guard, and travellers may sve time and trouble sometimes by making a note of this. Boating in the Welland river is also restricted in the neighborhood of the aqueduct, as per the subjoined notice, which has been given boat owners:-
Notice and Warning
“Parties boating in the Welland river east of the canal aqueduct are hereby notified and warned that they must not, under any consideration, approach the aqueduct by night, nor must they by day nearer than the nearest boathouse. If a boating party is challnged by the sentry one of the party must answer the challenge by saying who they are and stopping the boat, and obey all directions of the sentry. The sentry has a loaded magazine rifle of long range, and his instructions are to shoot any person disregarding his orders. Parties lending or hiring their boats to others will please warn the parties obtaning their boats of the above instructions. Parties having a grievance or complaint may take the same to the undersigned, or to W.G. Thompson, Superintending Engineer, St. Catharines. The authorities feel that they have the sympathy of the citizens in protecting public property and the superintendent will do anything reasonable to mitigate the inconveniece to citizens of a military guard, but citizens will kindly remember that the sentry must and will do his duty. By order, J. Edward Cohoe, Major, 44th Battalion, Welland, Ont.”
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